We’re changing the way we accept checks as remittance for WordCamp sponsorship. Moving forward payment by check will be sent to a lockbox with our bank. This means better security and more efficient depositing of checks. In addition it means that multiple team members will be able to process and note sponsor income.

Starting today checks should be sent to:

WordPress Foundation
MS 65
PO Box 4000
Portland, OR 97208-4000

Please ensure that all sponsors mark the check with your WordCamp city.

If you’ve already sent out invoices with the previous address there’s no need to reissue but please update your templates and use the PO Box 4000 for all future requests.

Calling all deputies! Feeling like you’ve really gotten the hang of triage and tagging in SupportPress? Not yet ready for interviewing, but want to do more?

Sounds like application vetting might be just right for you. We’re going to have two trainings next week for deputies who are ready to learn about vetting those Meetup and WordCamp applications. The first will be at 1400 UTC on Tuesday, Aug 4 and the second will be at 0200 UTC Wednesday, Aug 5. Both will use Google Hangouts unless we run into technical difficulties!

Please RSVP in the comments below so we can tell if we should split one group into two!

replied to Renny’s email outlining the Jakarta/Indonesia organizing team and updating us on the status of monthly meetups in Jakarta (there hasn’t been one since May due to summer holidays/Ramadan), and asked her to two things by the end of the week: 1) get some meetups scheduled for August and September (by which I mean she or someone else in the meetup could organize them) and 2) send out a public call for organizers/volunteers via the meetup group to make sure everyone in the community knows the WordCamp organizing team is open and welcoming to newcomers. She also promised to reach out again to the other person who’s expressed interest in helping on the team, Kai.

sent Renny the WordCamp organizer agreement, which evidently she had not been sent before

made a new copy of the WordCamp Attendee Survey for this year so that new events could use it again without having last year’s data mixed in with this year’s data

shared the filtered results to Asheville and Milwaukee

responded to Miriam Schwab clarifying the expectation that a community interested in organizing a WordCamp will have an active monthly meetup in place beforehand. The consensus at the 2014 community summit was that since a WordCamp is the annual celebration of a local WordPress community, it’s reasonable to expect there to be an active WordPress community in any place that wants to put on a WordCamp. I asked whether she thought this would be a blocker to the Israeli community and offered to arrange a time we could discuss via video chat, since that’s usually the best way to have a constructive dialogue.

initiated a large shipment of swag to @miss_jwo so that she can ship to local EU meetups and camps